G4387–πρότερος–proteros

"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

πρότερον; proteron “before?”

Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.

πρότερον, proteron “former”

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

πρότερον proteron “before”

It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere--so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour--

πρότερον proteron “previously”

And you know that in those early days it was on account of bodily infirmity that I proclaimed the Good News to you,

πρότερον, proteron “first,”

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

προτέραν proteran “former”